Re: Linux-2.4.1-pre11 / ll_rw_b watermark metric?

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> I have pre11 running with Andrea's suggested fix.
> 
>         high_queued_sectors = total_ram / 3;
>         low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors / 2;
>         if (low_queued_sectors < 0)
>                 low_queued_sectors = total_ram / 2;
>  
>         /*
>          * for big RAM machines (>= 384MB), use more for I/O
>          */
>         /*
>         if (total_ram >= MB(384)) {
>                 high_queued_sectors = (total_ram * 4) / 5;
>                 low_queued_sectors = high_queued_sectors - MB(128);
>         }
>         */
> 
> Shouldn't it be clean for a 2.4.1 release?

With enough swap the numbers I saw were not conclusive. I promised
to test which I haven't gotten done yet, I will do this tomorrow
and make sure we have the right ratios. However, I don't think
the pre11 numbers are much off - do you have any results?

-- 
Jens Axboe